But we have substituted pacifismand commercialism for the old struggle, and we have substituted phrases for the old ideas which cost sacrifice to maintain.
Pacifism springs from the belief that nations do not matter, that "humanity is the great idea.
The reason why pacifism is ineffectual is because it is an intellectual theory, which does not build on instinct.
One of those unsound elements was the theory of pacifism and cosmopolitanism.
Pacifism is not a disease, it is the symptom of the disease of a false internationalism.
Pacifism is valueless, because it is a vague emotion.
The juxtaposition in the American people's character of Pacifism and an impulsive lust of war should have been known to us, if more sedulous attention had been paid in Germany to American conditions and characteristics.
This combine was to support the cause of Pacifism after the war.
They were able to resist some of the pacifism of the Broadcasters.
People so in tune with the wavelength of pacifism could not only not kill another human being, they could not even kill an animal.
If pacifism really controlled them do you think they could do that?
Their pacifism is rooted in their contemplative outlook, and in the fact that they do not desire to change whatever they see.
Expenditure on the navy is unpopular in America, but by its parade of pacifism the Government has been enabled to extract the necessary money out of the pockets of reluctant taxpayers.
Public life was so ugly just now, the decay of patriotism under the corroding influence of an evil and cowardly sort of pacifism was hateful to him, but England still remained to re-vitalise the English when the time should come.
But in the universal reaction from the war-spirit to Pacifism the truths he was urging received scant attention, his really amazing prophecies fell on deaf ears.
But while the formulae of national belligerence are easy, familiar, blatant, and instantly present, the gentler, greater formulae of that wider and newer world pacifism has still to be generally understood.
The rational pacifist is hampered not only by belligerency, but by a sort of malignant extreme pacifism as impatient and silly as the extremest patriotism.
It was part of Webster's insight that he divined this, that he saw there was morepacifism than natural ardor in the North of 1850, saw that the precipitation of a war issue might spell the end of the United Republic.
A great portion of this book exposing the subtle propaganda of Socialism and Pacifism is admirable; it is only where the author attempts to lay all this to the charge of the Jesuits that he entirely fails to substantiate his case.
The Occult Power preachedpacifism and humanitarianism in France by means of French Freemasonry whilst it preached patriotism in Germany by means of German Freemasonry.
The Christ of Socialism invoked in the interests of Pacifism as the opponent of force and in the interests of class warfare as a Socialist, a revolutionary, or even an "agitator," bears no resemblance to the real Christ.
Whilst loudly proclaiming pacifism and pressing for the reduction of armaments, it has never uttered a word of protest against the employment of British troops to defend Jewish interests against the Arabs in Palestine.
Undoubtedly England did propagate Pacifism in Germany and other enemy countries and hoped to bring about a political revolution, that is to say, a rising of the German people against the rulers who had led them into war.
The pacifism (not non-resistance) of Isaiah hardly requires elucidation.
The rule of truly Christian pacifism is not hard to understand when we approach it from the standpoint of those who after the precept and example of Jesus seek first the Kingdom of God.
Jesus even reverses that Bolshevist pacifism that to save its own skin throws to the Turkish-Teuton wolves the bleeding remnant of the earliest historic flock of Christ.
It is the kind of militantpacifism which Paul hints at.
His pacifism was of the type of Micah's and Isaiah's.
The Celestial Empire on the other hand seems to this champion of the pacifism of Lao-tse to have practically realized the blessings of the Kingdom of Heaven.
But non-resistant pacifism is ever rich in paradox.
In this he is inconsistent with non-resistant pacifism that can see no difference between this doctrine and that of Buddha or Lao-tse.
Their pacifism differs from that of Lao-tse and of Buddha in the important respect of having a pronounced theistic basis.
The Socialists have cynically announced that their job is to encourage pacifism in other countries, and thereby to lessen the resistance of these countries to German militarism.
I would have the dupes of pacifism read carefully the following extract from his speech; if they remain deaf to its meaning, it can only be because, like the man in the fable, they do not wish to hear.
My pacifism began to fade away, as I saw visions of mutilated men.
Pacifism is hell, when heaven challenges the soul to fight.
They fail to see that, if retiring, non-resistant pacifism is the best policy for a nation to adopt in order to get what it wants, they themselves should adopt such pacifism to get what they want.
Pacifism has ringed the nose of the American people and is leading them, blind and unknowing, to the slaughter.
For true pacifism is a condemnation of the present.
He also said that during his campaign for "preparedness" he discovered that "the woman suffrage movement was hopelessly given over to pacifism in its extreme socialistic form.
By pacifism then I meant opposition to war,--the belief in the possibility of universal disarmament and settlement of all difficulties by arbitration.
Am I not logical when I say thatpacifism must be considered the first step to internationalism?
To one who believed himself marked out for a tragic end, the cowardice at the heart of the pacifism of his time was revolting.
At the other extreme was the hysterical pacifism of the Abolitionists.
The cause of these failures of pacifism has been its {222} unreality, its too confident approach to a difficult problem.
Krehbiel, Edward, digest of history of pacifism by, 219 n.
At the bottom of staticpacifism lies a conception somewhat as follows.
Like the religious and emotional pacifism which preceded it, this rationalistic pacifism broke down through its sheer inapplicability to the facts of life.
Though a pacific nation, we experienced a sudden revulsion against pacifism and Hague tribunals, as though it were the pacifists who had brought on the war.
Pacifism may be either static or dynamic; it may seek to keep things as they are, to crystallise international society in its present forms, or on the other hand may base itself on the assumption that these forms will change.
Throughout this long history, pacifism failed because it was in no sense based upon the actual conditions of the world.
Maintaining as Lewis does that respect for every human personality is not their highest value, non-pacifists attack pacifism almost entirely on the ground that in the present state of world society it is not expedient--that it is "impractical.
A new edition with the title Pacifism and Invasion was issued in 1942.
At presentpacifism is no completely integrated philosophy of life.
Hershberger is here defining pacifism broadly to include the European meaning of opposition to war, but not necessarily a refusal to take part in it.
Yet when confronted with evil, even he who thinks of his pacifism as a positive attitude must decide not only what means he will use to oppose evil, but what means he will not use.
But pacifists themselves have not been agreed upon the meanings and implications of these terms, and the opponents of pacifism have hastened to define them in such a way as to deny validity to the pacifist philosophy.
Cadoux has phrased it, "Pacifism is applicable only in so far as there exist pacifists who are convinced of its wisdom.
Jimmie Higgins couldn't understand that here in Archangel were Americans taking their orders from British and French officers, who wasted no breath on pacifism and sentiment, who had no fool ideas about wars for democracy.
And here was Comrade Jimmie, delivering a sermon on pacifism to the "special agent" of the government, who held his fate in his hands!
Pacifism was constantly fed by other immigrants, from Germany and Russia and minor states, who fled from compulsory military service (for their children, if not for themselves).
Our propagandists did not know how to turn to their advantage the constant, native, completely sensible pacifism of the American people, especially of the Midwestern Americans.
This pacifism was more intense in the more agricultural states and was fed by the settlement there of pacific Scandinavians whose country's record of avoiding wars was better than ours.
During the first twelve months of the war, when the country looked to him for leadership, he had, purposely or otherwise, fostered the forces of pacifism and encouraged the advocates of national isolation.
For the most part pacifism and pro-Germanism went hand in hand--a tragic alliance of good and evil which was to hamper later efforts to evolve an international organization for the preservation of peace.
In deference to the spirit of pacifism that engrossed the Middle West, he had opposed the movement for military preparedness.
By April there were few Americans, except those in whom pacifism was a mania, who were not convinced that war with Germany was the only course consistent with either honor or safety.
The quality of Wilson's pacifism was about to be put to the test.
Pacifism does not even pretend to be a dogma: it is an attempt to correct in men's minds some of the errors and false theories out of which war grows.
And my answers may be summarised thus:-- (1) This war has justified both the Old Pacifism and the New.
He seems to have had the nerve to get up and spout a little speech on pacifism before about half a dozen of them.
There were moments when Mrs. Burton wondered if Billy were intent upon preaching his childish ideas upon pacifism and had chosen the one place where they would be most troublesome and dangerous!
The war propaganda left a rather bad taste in the mouth of many Americans, and the boisterous joviality of the arousers probably produced negative attitudes which encouraged pacifism and isolationism in the postwar years.
